MOSCOW, September 10. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and the Kiev District Court have forbidden broadcasts of Russian channel LifeNews in the country, the channel said late Tuesday.

LifeNews has become the 15th Russian channel to be banned in Ukraine, following Channel One, RTR-Planet, Rossiya-24, NTV, Russia Today and others.

The national council earlier drew a list of 49 Russian mass media representatives, who will be announced persona non grata in Ukraine.